Akiko Takenaka

Akiko Takenaka is an associate professor of Japanese history at the University of Kentucky. Her first book, Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar (University of Hawai’i Press, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University), examines the significance of the Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. (Photo credit: WKU Libraries)